The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-06
FLORIDA.

The Ocala House will open on Nov. Q, with
grand ball
The Ponce Park Hotel at New Smyrna is
nearing completion.
Work on Ocala's artesian well will COM
mence in about two weeks
The Supreme Court of Florida will con-
vene at Tallahassee next Monday.
The wild animal scalp business is costing
Orange county over $50 per month.
Circuit court will convene at Bronson on
Nov. %, Judge jesse j. Finley, presiding.
Frost appeared in Tallahassee three morn
ing last week and ice formed one morning.
Webber & Lord are planning for about
$l2, 90 in cottages on Orange avenue, Or
lando.
There have been no arrests for drunken
ness in Orlando since the saloons were
closed.
Up to date 1900 boxes of oranges and
lemons have been shipped from New
Smyrna.
The fall term of the Circuit Court for
Jefferson county begins at Monticello next
Wednesday.
There are thirty odd students in attend
ance at the State Normal College for colored
teachers, at Tallahassee.
There was only one death in Ocala for the
month of October, that of an old man, whose
death was caused by old age.
The County Commissio aers of Lake
county have called an election to take place
on Jan. II, 1888, for county seat.
Rev. L. B. Plumer, editor of the Baptist
Witness, DeLand, has been called to the
pastorate of the Leesburg Baptist church.
The statement that Tavares had with
drawn from the county seat contest is erro-
neous. Tavares still expects to be Lakes
| county seat.
The st. Cloud farm near Fennel prairie,
in Orange county, has 1876 acres in magnifi-
| cent sugar cane and fifty in rice that rivals
! that of the Carolina marshes.
On Monday J. l.. Bryan, County and
| Probate Judge of Orange, sent the first in
stallment of probate records from that
county to Lake.
An applicant for a certificate to teach
| school at Jasper created considerable amuse-
| men6 at a recent examination. When asked
where the Pilgrim Fathers landed he replied
''at Canaan"
The Ocala Lime Works have shut down
| for the present. New machinery is now be.
ing added so as to increase the daily capac-
| ity to $50 barrels. The capacity heretofore
has only been 100 barrels day.
The report was current on the streets of
Orlando Thursday that H. s. Kedney's ele-
| CANT hotel the "San Juan de Ulloa,n is to
be handsomely furnished and run by a
prominent hotel man from Atlanta
Gen. w. s. Harvey is coming to make his
home in Florida. The editor of the Quincy
Herald was with him at the battle of Ash
| Hollow in 1854, and also at the founding of
Fort Pierre Gen. Harvey is 80 years of
| age.
One of the most energetic business men
in Tallahassee to-day came there forty years
| ago to die of consumption. He has reared
| four children, all of whom are married,
and he has grandchildren in three house
holds.
John B. Hawkins, one of Tallahassees en-
| terprising colored men, is building a sixteen
room hotel on the corner of Boulevard and
Augustine streets for the accommodation of
persons of his race. He will name it Tine
Boulevard Hotel"
The Governor has made the following APP
pointments: E. y. Taylor County Treasurer
for Calhoun county; K. b. Burchfield, Sur
veyor for Brevard county, and D. G. Riv-
ers and George g. Keen, Justices of the
Peace for Columbia county.
II. D. Wyman has resigned his position as
station agent at Mt. Dora, and is succeeded
by A. +. Atterberry. Mr.. Wyman goes to
Sanford as full partner with w. j. Hill in
the door, sash aud blind business. The
branch store at Mt. Dora will be continued.
Hon. J. B. c. Drew, who was Attorney
| General of Florida some years ago, now
citizen of New York. arrived at Tallahassee
Few days ago, accompanied by j. e.
Kauser and M. g. Webb, of Paris, France.
! They all came to look at the Tallahassee
country.
! Mrs. Proctor, wife of the celebrated scien-
! fist and lecturer, Prof. Richard A. Proctor,
and two children, passed through jackson
| vile Thursday en- route TO their new home